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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>78463</law_id><section_number>50-73.91</section_number><catch_line>Partner agent of partnership</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>50-73.113</reference><reference>50-73.120</reference><reference>50-73.121</reference><reference>50-73.92</reference><reference>50-73.99</reference></referred_to_by><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="50">Partnerships</unit><unit label="chapter" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="2.2">Virginia Uniform Partnership Act</unit><unit label="article" level="3" order_by="1" identifier="3">Relations of Partners to Persons Dealing With Partnership</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>Subject to the effect of a <span class="dictionary">statement</span> of <span class="dictionary">partnership</span> authority under &#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Statement of partnership authority" href="/50-73.93/">50-73.93</a>:</p></section>
						<section id="1"><p><span class="prefix-number">1.</span> Each partner is an agent of the <span class="dictionary">partnership</span> for the purpose of its <span class="dictionary">business</span>. An act of a partner, including the execution of an instrument in the <span class="dictionary">partnership</span> name, for apparently carrying on in the ordinary course the <span class="dictionary">partnership</span> <span class="dictionary">business</span> or <span class="dictionary">business</span> of the kind carried on by the <span class="dictionary">partnership</span> binds the <span class="dictionary">partnership</span>, unless the partner had no authority to act for the <span class="dictionary">partnership</span> in the particular matter and the <span class="dictionary">person</span> with whom the partner was dealing knew or had received a notification that the partner lacked authority. <a id="paragraph-281249" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/50-73.91/#1"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section>
						<section id="2"><p><span class="prefix-number">2.</span> An act of a partner which is not apparently for carrying on in the ordinary course the <span class="dictionary">partnership</span> <span class="dictionary">business</span> or <span class="dictionary">business</span> of the kind carried on by the <span class="dictionary">partnership</span> binds the <span class="dictionary">partnership</span> only if the act was authorized by the other partners. <a id="paragraph-281250" class="section-permalink" href="https://vacode.org/50-73.91/#2"><i class="fa fa-link"/></a></p></section></text><history>1996, c. 292.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
